Word: shagamu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shagamu, Nigeria...
Stifling in Nigeria's rainy-season heat, the shanty-filled town of Shagamu seemed hardly the place to find 15 fresh-faced American college students. But there they were last week, and not snapping pictures of the natives from an air-conditioned bus. Up at 6 every morning, boys and girls spent the long days chopping trees and shoveling dirt to hack out a road from a school to a chapel back in the bush. In credulous Africans followed them everywhere; a dozen English-speaking Nigerian students worked beside them, jabbering questions about life in the U.S. Asked...
...Sized Jobs. The 15 American toilers in Shagamu are part of a 180-student group called Operation Crossroads-Africa, one of the most ambitious and useful summer work-camp ideas yet devised in the U.S. Chosen from 700 applicants, they come from 75 colleges of all kinds and sizes. Nearly half are girls, and the roster includes 25 Southern white students, 35 U.S. Negroes, two U.S. Indians, two Chinese-Americans and 13 Yalemen led by the university chaplain. Many of the students had scholarships to pay their expenses; those who could paid $800, or about half the cost...
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